{"id":6426,"date":"2020-06-21T13:40:07","date_gmt":"2020-06-21T13:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.askpython.com\/?p=6426"},"modified":"2020-06-21T13:42:08","modified_gmt":"2020-06-21T13:42:08","slug":"python-automate-facebook-login","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.askpython.com\/python\/examples\/python-automate-facebook-login","title":{"rendered":"Using Selenium in Python to Automate Facebook Login"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Hello everyone! In today’s article, we’ll be looking at using Python to automatically login to Facebook.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This will be a fun experiment that will give you a glimpse into web-browser automation using Python’s Selenium web driver. So let’s get right into the topic and create a script that will visit the Facebook page, enter the credentials, and log right in!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Prerequisites<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Now, before going though this tutorial, you’ll need to install certain libraries in Python. These libraries will make it very easy for us to login to the browser.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We’ll be using the Selenium<\/em> webdriver module in Python. This module enables us to control our web browser (Chrome \/ Firefox) using a driver program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But, to use Selenium along with our browser, we’ll need to install the drivers for that browser (Chrome\/Firefox). To install them, we’ll take the help of another Python module: webdriver_manager<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instead of having to download the selenium webdriver manually, you can simply import this module! This will fetch all requirements automatically for you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So now, let’s pip install<\/code> the necessary packages, using the pip<\/a> manager:<\/p>\n\n\n

\npip install selenium\npip install webdriver_manager\n<\/pre><\/div>\n\n\n
Now that we’ve installed our requirements, let’s start writing the code!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Writing our Script to Automate Facebook login<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Let’s first import the necessary modules. We’ll need selenium<\/code> as well as the webdriver_manager<\/code>.<\/p>\n\n\n
\nfrom selenium import webdriver\nfrom webdriver_manager.firefox import GeckoDriverManager\nfrom webdriver_manager.chrome import ChromeDriverManager\nimport time\n<\/pre><\/div>\n\n\n
Here, I need the webdriver<\/code> class of the core Selenium module. Also, since we’ll be using it with firefox\/chrome, we’ll need to load the necessary WebDrivers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Now, we’ll be using the below url to login:<\/p>\n\n\n
\nLOGIN_URL = 'https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/login.php'\n<\/pre><\/div>\n\n\n
Now, we’ll implement the login functionality as a class. Let’s call it FacebookLogin<\/code>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When we call __init__()<\/code>, we’ll initialize the selenium webdriver session. We need to send both the email and password fields to our webdriver session, so we’ll take them as input.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Finally, we will fetch the LOGIN_URL<\/code> with a GET request from the webdriver.<\/p>\n\n\n
\nclass FacebookLogin():\n    def __init__(self, email, password, browser='Chrome'):\n        # Store credentials for login\n        self.email = email\n        self.password = password\n        if browser == 'Chrome':\n            # Use chrome\n            self.driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=ChromeDriverManager().install())\n        elif browser == 'Firefox':\n            # Set it to Firefox\n            self.driver = webdriver.Firefox(executable_path=GeckoDriverManager().install())\n        self.driver.get(LOGIN_URL)\n        time.sleep(1) # Wait for some time to load\n<\/pre><\/div>\n\n\n
Alright, now we have initialized the class instance. Now, to login, we’ll create another method called login()<\/code> to do this for us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To login, we’ll need to give the input to the login elements (email<\/code> and pass<\/code> on the html page)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Selenium has the find_element_by_id()<\/code> method, which will automatically locate the corresponding element for you!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To send the keyboard input, we can use element.send_keys(input)<\/code> directly!<\/p>\n\n\n
\n    def login(self):\n        email_element = self.driver.find_element_by_id('email')\n        email_element.send_keys(self.email) # Give keyboard input\n\n        password_element = self.driver.find_element_by_id('pass')\n        password_element.send_keys(self.password) # Give password as input too\n\n        login_button = self.driver.find_element_by_id('loginbutton')\n        login_button.click() # Send mouse click\n\n        time.sleep(2) # Wait for 2 seconds for the page to show up\n<\/pre><\/div>\n\n\n
Notice how simple the API is! We can directly do element.send_keys()<\/code> and element.click()<\/code>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Finally, give the program some time to load the webpage, using time.sleep()<\/code><\/p>\n\n\n\n
I’ll give you the full code below. Just make sure to use your proper login credentials in the main<\/code> module.<\/p>\n\n\n
\nfrom selenium import webdriver\nfrom webdriver_manager.firefox import GeckoDriverManager\nfrom webdriver_manager.chrome import ChromeDriverManager\nimport time\n\n\nLOGIN_URL = 'https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/login.php'\n\nclass FacebookLogin():\n    def __init__(self, email, password, browser='Chrome'):\n        # Store credentials for login\n        self.email = email\n        self.password = password\n        if browser == 'Chrome':\n            # Use chrome\n            self.driver = webdriver.Chrome(executable_path=ChromeDriverManager().install())\n        elif browser == 'Firefox':\n            # Set it to Firefox\n            self.driver = webdriver.Firefox(executable_path=GeckoDriverManager().install())\n        self.driver.get(LOGIN_URL)\n        time.sleep(1) # Wait for some time to load\n\n\n\n    def login(self):\n        email_element = self.driver.find_element_by_id('email')\n        email_element.send_keys(self.email) # Give keyboard input\n\n        password_element = self.driver.find_element_by_id('pass')\n        password_element.send_keys(self.password) # Give password as input too\n\n        login_button = self.driver.find_element_by_id('loginbutton')\n        login_button.click() # Send mouse click\n\n        time.sleep(2) # Wait for 2 seconds for the page to show up\n\n\nif __name__ == '__main__':\n    # Enter your login credentials here\n    fb_login = FacebookLogin(email='sample@example.com', password='PASSWORD', browser='Firefox')\n    fb_login.login()\n<\/pre><\/div>\n\n\n
Hopefully your browser will be showing your home page now. Hurray, you’ve successfully logged on to facebook!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Conclusion<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
In this article, we learned about using Python and Selenium to automate logging onto Facebook quickly!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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